MediaTek Releases Tianji 9300 Flagship 5G Generative AI Mobile Chip, Opening the Era of Full Core Computing
2023-11-08
MediaTek has released the flagship 5G generative AI mobile chip of the Tianji 9300. With its innovative full core architecture design, it provides far superior features such as high intelligence, high performance, high energy efficiency, and low power consumption. With groundbreaking advanced technology, it defines the flagship new experience in end-to-end generative AI, gaming, imaging, and other aspects.
Director of MediaTek General Manager Chen Guanzhou stated: "With the advent of the era of comprehensive intelligence, MediaTek has achieved diversified development and outstanding achievements in smart terminals, smart cars, smart homes and other fields by virtue of its deep foundation and rich experience in the field of edge computing. Through our leading edge AI computing and hybrid AI computing technology, MediaTek is committed to building a new full scene intelligent experience for users, promoting the popularization of innovative applications of generative AI, and making cutting-edge Technology benefits the wider public and empowers thousands of industries

Dr. Xu Jingquan, Senior Vice General Manager and General Manager of the Wireless Communication Business Unit at MediaTek, stated: The Tianji 9300 is MediaTek's most powerful flagship mobile chip to date, bringing stunning computing power breakthroughs to flagship smartphones through our groundbreaking full core architecture design. The unique full core CPU, combined with the new generation APU, GPU, ISP, and MediaTek's unique front edge technology, not only significantly improves terminal performance and energy efficiency, but also brings consumers an excellent end-to-end generative AI experience

In order to meet the increasing demand for modern and future mobile computing power, MediaTek broke away from traditional architecture design thinking and innovatively designed the "full core" CPU architecture of the Tianji 9300, which includes four Cortex-X4 super cores with a maximum frequency of 3.25GHz, as well as four Cortex-A720 cores with a main frequency of 2.0GHz. Its peak performance is improved by 40% compared to the previous generation and power consumption is saved by 33%. The full core architecture has fast working speed, high efficiency, and high energy efficiency characteristics, which can reduce power consumption and extend battery life in both light and heavy load application scenarios. The powerful multithreading performance of the full core architecture can make terminal multitasking smoother, such as playing games and video live broadcasts simultaneously, or playing videos while playing games.

The Tianji 9300 integrates the MediaTek seventh generation AI processor APU 790, designed for generative AI, with significantly improved performance and energy efficiency. The performance of integer and floating-point operations is twice that of the previous generation, and the power consumption is reduced by 45%. The APU 790 is equipped with a hardware level generative AI engine, which can achieve faster and safer edge AI computing. It is deeply adapted to the Transformer model for operator acceleration, with a processing speed 8 times that of the previous generation, and can generate images within 1 second. Based on the characteristics of the billion level parameter large language model, MediaTek has developed mixed precision INT4 quantization technology, combined with MediaTek's unique memory hardware compression technology NeuroPilot Compression, which can more efficiently utilize memory bandwidth, significantly reduce the occupation of terminal memory by AI large models, and support the operation of AI large language models with parameters of 1 billion, 7 billion, 13 billion, and up to 33 billion. APU 790 also supports the NeuroPilot Fusion technology for generative AI model end side "skill augmentation", which can continuously perform low rank adaptation (LoRA, Low Rank Adaptation) fusion on the end side based on the basic large model, thereby endowing the basic large model with more comprehensive capabilities. MediaTek's AI development platform NeuroPilot has built a rich AI ecosystem, supporting leading mainstream AI models such as Android, Meta Llama 2, Baidu ERNIE Bot and Baichuan Smart Baichuan. The complete tool chain helps developers deploy multimode AI applications quickly and efficiently on the end side, and provides users with text, image, music and other terminal side AI innovation experience.

The Tianji 9300 is the first to adopt the new generation flagship 12 core GPU Immortalis-G720. Compared with the previous generation, it has improved peak performance by 46% and reduced power consumption by 40% under the same performance, providing a long-lasting and smooth flagship mobile gaming experience. The Tianji 9300 is equipped with MediaTek's second-generation hardware ray tracing engine, which supports 60FPS of high smoothness ray tracing and brings console level global lighting effects, setting a new benchmark for mobile gaming graphics experience. In addition, MediaTek's unique MAGT game adaptive control technology has been upgraded to a "star speed engine", which not only cooperates extensively with game applications, but also expands the ecological cooperation of more types of applications, continuously improving user experience.

The Tianji 9300 is equipped with the flagship ISP image processor Imagiq 990, which supports AI semantic segmentation video engine and can perform 16 layers of image semantic segmentation. It optimizes the captured image color, texture, noise, and brightness in real-time frame by frame, making the recorded image brighter, sharper, and more detailed. With the upgrade of both depth of field and spot engines, the Tianji 9300 can present cinematic light and shadow effects during 4K video recording. The chip also integrates an OIS optical anti shake core, which can significantly improve anti shake operations Speed and sharpness, capable of quickly capturing high-definition images in motion scenes and dark environments. Meanwhile, the Tianji 9300 supports full pixel focusing and 2x lossless zoom function. Through close cooperation with leading global sensor manufacturers, MediaTek will continue to provide users with a professional mobile imaging experience.

The technology of MediaTek Tianji 9300 also includes:

Mobile display: The Tianji 9300 integrates the MediaTek MiraVision 990 mobile display processor, supporting 180Hz WQHD and 120Hz 4K displays, as well as dual screen display for terminal devices in a foldable screen format. It is equipped with the flagship intelligent TV grade AI depth of field and image quality engine, combined with the powerful AI performance of the APU 790, which can detect main objects and background images in real-time. Coupled with MediaTek MiraVision PQ image quality enhancement technology, it can dynamically adjust the contrast, sharpness, and color of main objects, enhance the overall three-dimensional image, and make the picture more lifelike. In addition, the Tianji 9300 supports the new Ultra HDR format in Android 14, which makes photos look more vivid and compatible with JPEG format.

Audio noise reduction: Supports 3 microphones for high dynamic recording noise reduction. With omnidirectional high dynamic reception capability and advanced noise separation technology, it can effectively filter out environmental noise such as wind noise, providing users with a more pure HDR stereo recording experience.

• Wireless connection: The Tianji 9300 supports Wi Fi 7 with a maximum theoretical peak rate of 6.5Gbps, and is equipped with MediaTek's unique Wi Fi 7 enhancement technology, leveraging the MediaTek Xtra Range ™ With 2.0 technology, the indoor coverage of Wi Fi 7 can increase by 4.5 meters and significantly improve data transmission speed between devices, without fear of interference. The Tianji 9300 can support up to 3 Bluetooth antennas and features dual Bluetooth flash technology, providing an ultra-low latency Bluetooth audio experience.

5G communication: Integrated 5G modem, supporting Sub-6GHz quad carrier aggregation (4CC-CA) and multi standard dual card dual pass, equipped with MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+power saving technology, significantly reducing 5G communication power consumption. The Tianji 9300 integrates 5G with AI and supports situational awareness function.

·Data security: The Tianji 9300 integrates dual security chips, and the dedicated security chip adopts advanced user data security design, which can protect personal privacy from the source of startup. At the same time, it has a physically isolated computing environment, making the encryption and decryption operations of personal data more secure. MediaTek utilizes advanced Memory Markup Extension (MTE) technology to create a more secure application development environment and build stronger user data security guarantees.

Manufacturing process: The Tianji 9300 adopts the third-generation 4nm process of TSMC.

Memory support: First to support LPDDR5T 9600Mbps memory.

The first smartphone to use the MediaTek Tianji 9300 chip is expected to be launched by the end of 2023.